Your "Frankenplane" article (Feb./Mar. 2021) reminded me of FrankenProwler, an EA-6B cobbled together from the major sections of three jets with smaller components from many others. I was with the Shadowhawks of VAQ-141 when we received FrankenProwler, BuNo 158542, from the depot. Our airframers made a special Frankenstein logo for the nose (right), painted stitches where the major components were joined, and painted large bolts on either side of where they estimated the jet's "neck" to be (just forward of the inlets) FrankenProwler deployed with us in 2005-2006, during which the squadron conducted operations simultaneously from USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf and Al Asad Airbase in western Iraq. I don't know where FrankenProwler's career took it after VAQ-141, but it resides today at the Pima Air & Space Museum sporting Marine markings.
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